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Louise Carignan was an editor of this journal. She was also a gifted clinician. The spring 2014 issue will include a festschrift in her honour, with discussions of her paper “The Secret: Study of a Perverse Transference,” in the International Journal of Psychoanalysis (1999).
Louise would approve of being admired. She knew she had a first-class mind and she was proud of being a physician and psychiatrist. It was psychoanalysis, however, that allowed her to blossom as a clinician and then as a teacher and scholar. Louise was transformed by psychoanalysis, and this was clear when we both entered psychoanalytic training in 1985. She joined the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society in 1989. In lockstep and mutually supportive, we both became training analysts in 1996.
Psychoanalysis gave Louise scope. She was an intuitive, perceptive analyst with an enlivening grasp of analytic process. She could apply this understanding beyond the couch to art, film, and culture. We had wonderful times at conferences in foreign cities exploring art galleries. I was the student and she was the teacher. She knew a lot and was in her earlier years a talented painter.
Louise excelled as a teacher and supervisor. In particular, she deeply understood the psychoanalytic concept of narcissism and could convey it extremely well to candidates. She gravitated to academic challenges: